Wrttg- for wibtdshields



July 3, 1923.

F. MILLER ADJUSTABLE WING FOR WINDSHIELDS Filed May 18. 1921 Patented July 3, 1923.

rREDEiiIoK' LJJ'MfLIiEB, or DESS-MOINES, IOWA. f I

J DtIUsTABtE write roe wiixms aistns'. i

To all whom it may'conce'm.

*Be it'- known that I, QZFRED'ERICIQ LS'MILLER, citizen of the "United states, and rresident of Des #Moines, in the' county i of Polk; and 5 State of Iowa, have invented a'certaimnew and useful Adjustable Wijng forlVindshields,'o'f-w-hich the following is a specificatioIL' '3 I v 4 l The object or-m invention is to provide a detachable?and adjustable transp arfent wind 'wing tobe applied toeach end "of the ordinary win'd "shield for automobiles. Afurther obj'ect is toprovide a detachable and adjustablemechanism fi for wind 'shields which'may beemployed' 'to cz'i-rry-and support a transparent wing member in r such a" manner thatthe said li'iiember' maybe easily and quickly'replaced' injcase it should become'brokenL f A further object .isitoiprovide inia'detachableiand' a'dj list-able mechanism support- ,ing' transparent *wiifd :wingflinipr'oved meansflfor mounting thezwings' without drillingyh oles through t-he transparent members. 2 "A still further "obj set -is to' provide fin an adjustable wind .wing for 'af wi'nd shield, improved means" for djustin'g the wing. relajtiveto the saidshield.j These-' and fotherfoh'ec V fwill, be apparent 30,:toflthose skille'd-injthBfart.'

My invention consists 1 "the construction,

I arrangement and, combination of .the i'various parts of' fthe device, whereby Lthetobj ects ;,con

'templatedareattained, 'asherein'ai'ter more "fully set fforth;pointedfliout in my (claims,

and illustrated in the "accompanying "draw ings, in which; i i

intrig 1 1s a in el a on-"Q1 my" pr'oved wind w ng.

40 Fi ure 2 -'s an end jelevation of'the; fshowing themanner' in which it, is mounted "on a wind shield. p

Figure is a, top view of Figure,l 2"showingv-th'e,-manner-}in%which-Lit'. is clamped to thewind shield, "and also the adjustable wing moved to one of its positions of movement in dotted lines.

Figure 4 is a sectional view taken on the line 4:4 of Figure 1.

The numeral 10 indicates a portion of the frame of a wind shield of the ordinary construction. Mounted parallel with the upright portion of the member 10, I have provided a tube 11 which is adjustably secured in position by meansof clamp devices 12. These clamps are mounted in pohorizontally projecting portions.

Application filed me is', i921. 'seriarnafitqeea I sition-"by 'meansao'f bolts 1 3, said clamps beingsimilar to xthose use'd in mounting similar I devices and present invention.

The upright vend i of the tube llisiformed with an enlarged cylindrical portion lt-ha-w' ing its upper edge serrated at 11 5 Rota! tively-and "slidably mounted withini'thetube 'endofjwhich is screw threaded-andi-moun-t-- I k 1.1,1 have provide'da shaft" l6, lthe upper ed in an elbow=member 1'7 th e lower} ed'g "of said member l7-isqprovided withxa-se es of serrations designed'to co acjt w it'lr the-serrated portion 15." 'Thelower end of the shaft16 is screw threaded-and extends con- I siderabl'y b'el'ow the'lower; end of the tub'ei I 11, the low'er end ofsaidshaft 'being pro the member 17,- both ofsaid' lbovv s having nut' '19'is provided for is'ecuring; r anember l8- r gidly 1n= position oil-said" rod.

"the rod ll,--one end o'fsaid spi'ing being clevided with an elbow-memberfl8wsimilar' tb signed to rest against thelower end of the tube ll-, and the-other jend ma ma againstamut E22? which is-also m the shaft-'11.

B i'thi's;arrangement, i'ti ytill j'be seeir that i; have provided. {rhea-11's. v or yiel ing- 1 i hold- 1 engagement" ithjthe errat'd port vided with" a screw =threaded op eni ftheirends, each of whichis; designed to 'rel ceive a .s'cr ew* threadedf bolt These bolts are for securing the'wing member QBQinflja parallel position relative' t thetube "11 and his win 'meniben between the said bolts.

to rest 5Y3 emmg these acedgp-oruon o'r the membe'r r7: v i

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' the; inemberli. Each o f the liorizointal'ipor tions ofltheunembers,'IfZ aiibl 18 an pro- I 23. ipr eferablyqmade of terial such asglass.

Glass wings i ha e heretofore" secured in position by -drillin'g 'jho les {through the glass and. then placing bolts throiigh the holes' This involves eonsiderable expense v in drilling the holes and also weakensthe wing member to such an extent that they are easily broken, To overcome this di 'hculty,"

I have provided clamp members 24: which n v are mounted on the said bolts 22 in such a manner as to frictionally engage the wing;v

member, each of the members 24: is prefer 'ably constructed from a single piece of blank sheet metal formed into shape by the stamping method, and comprising a back member '25 having side members 26 arranged laterally at each edge, and an end member 27'. Each of the back members 25 is provided with an opening a slight distance above the end member 27, 'as shown Figure 4-, through which .the bolts 22 are mounted.

A washer 28 is mounted on the bolt 22 and rests between the adjacent ends of the members 27. This washer is for the purpose '1 past the other.

to rest againstthe wing member 23.

of providing means for the comparatively thin edges of the members 2'? to rest agalnst so-thereis no danger of one edge slipping The free ends, of the members 25 are provided with circular plates 29, each of which is designed to carry a rubber washer-3O on its inner face, These washers are desig ged inner edges of the members 26 are formed curved at 31 for the purpose ofgi'ving clearancebetween themalid the glass 23.

1 By this construction it will be seenthat as the 'bolt' 22 istightened, the plates 29 will be forced toward each otherand thereby rigidly 29 near oneedge of the said plate 23which' .is preferably constructed substantially rectangular, one side of the rectangle being mounted vertically. The edge closest to the -.members 29 is usually carried forward. I

By the construction just described it will i vbe seenth at by grasping the rear edges of the plates 23 with the hand,the wing may be swung about a Vertical axis and thereby the angle of the plate relative to the wind shield may be adjustedhen pressure is applied to the rear edge of the'plate in a flateral manner, a twistingmovement will be 45 member 117 which will cause theserrated imparted to the vertical portion of the portionof said member to moved relative to the serrated portion of the member 14, the upward movement of saidmember l7 beingipermitt ed by the spring21 yielding.

\Vhen the serrated portions of said members coact with each other, the spring 21 serves to hold the wing member against a swinging or rotary movement.

Thus it will be seenthat I have provided a device for mounting breakable wind wings of simple and neat designso arranged that the wing member may be easily and quickly replaced if necessary, and also so arranged that the angle. of the same may beeasily and quickly adjusted without the'use of tools, and the whole mechanism being so ar-v tube having its ends pro-jecting beyond the ends of said tube, an elbow member on each end of said shaft, one end of one of said elbows being serrated to coact with the serrated end of said. tube, a spring on the opposite end of said shaft betweenthe' corresponding ends of said tube'and said elbow, a nut for adjusting said spring, a win-gmemher and means for securing said wing mem her to said elbows, and means for clamping said tubeto a support. I

2. In a device of theclassdescribed, a tube having one end serrated,,a shaft slidably and rotatively mounted within said tube, the lower end of said shaft extending. below the lower end, of said tube, an elbow member on the upper end of said shafthaving itslower edge provided with serrations designed to coact withthe serrationson the upper end of said tube,,;. a .springon the lower end of said shaft adjacent to thelower,

end of said tube, a nut in the'lowerend of said shaft'to be designed to engage the lower end of said spring, an elbow on the'lower end of said shaft, a bolt in each of said elbows, oppositely arranged clampdeviceson each or said bolts, a wingmembermounted between said'oppositely arranged clamp devices and yielding mea'nsbetween said clamps and said wing'member, said clamps tightened the yielding member .m'ayj be forced into engagementwith-said wing" member. 7 2

Des Moines, Iowa, A ril 25, 1921.

being so arranged that as the bolts are FEEDER CK L; MILLER. j 

